Pub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2212170
Ibrahim Cifci, O. Akova, S. Rasoolimanesh, Mert Ogretmenoglu
ABSTRACT Prior research has broadly addressed the link between residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and their support for tourism development (STD) in different destination-based contexts. However, the literature on residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on their faith and how these perceptions affect their STD in a faith tourism destination remains tenuous. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating the link between residents’ perceptions of the economic, cultural, environmental, social and faith impacts of tourism and their STD in the Bektashi faith tourism destination. A total of 244 valid questionnaires were obtained from the inhabitants of Nevşehir, Türkiye. The authors applied fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) and PLS-SEM as asymmetrical and symmetrical approaches, respectively. The symmetrical approach demonstrated that only perceived cultural, social and faith impacts positively and significantly affect residents’ STD. The asymmetrical results provided more complex compounds of tourism impacts, with six configurations sufficient to create a high level of STD. The fsQCA analysis confirmed that only perceived faith impact was a necessity in determining residents’ STD. The results of the study suggest that, in order for faith tourism destinations to thrive, responsible authorities should avoid diminishing the faith elements.
{"title":"Residents’ perception of tourism impacts and their support for tourism development: a study of a Bektashi faith destination in Türkiye","authors":"Ibrahim Cifci, O. Akova, S. Rasoolimanesh, Mert Ogretmenoglu","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2212170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2212170","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Prior research has broadly addressed the link between residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and their support for tourism development (STD) in different destination-based contexts. However, the literature on residents’ perceptions of the impacts of tourism on their faith and how these perceptions affect their STD in a faith tourism destination remains tenuous. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating the link between residents’ perceptions of the economic, cultural, environmental, social and faith impacts of tourism and their STD in the Bektashi faith tourism destination. A total of 244 valid questionnaires were obtained from the inhabitants of Nevşehir, Türkiye. The authors applied fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) and PLS-SEM as asymmetrical and symmetrical approaches, respectively. The symmetrical approach demonstrated that only perceived cultural, social and faith impacts positively and significantly affect residents’ STD. The asymmetrical results provided more complex compounds of tourism impacts, with six configurations sufficient to create a high level of STD. The fsQCA analysis confirmed that only perceived faith impact was a necessity in determining residents’ STD. The results of the study suggest that, in order for faith tourism destinations to thrive, responsible authorities should avoid diminishing the faith elements.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"691 - 709"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48415154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2215933
Yuchen Zhao, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah
ABSTRACT While motivations for cultural and heritage tourism remain complex and diverse, previous studies overlook the structure and link of personal values, expected experience consequences, and destination attributes. Meanwhile, value pursuit as an enduring belief influencing tourists’ motivations and behavior has received limited research attention. Therefore, this study explores diverse motivations using the means-end chain and laddering interview techniques. The Five Great Avenues in Tianjin, China, a historical landscape embodying the social characteristics of China and Western colonialism in the 18th and 19th centuries, was used as the study site. The results show that self-development and socialization are the most important value pursuits, followed by hedonism and differentiation. Other value-based motivations include identification, existentialism, escapism, and freedom. A hierarchical map between value pursuits, tourism consequences, and destination attributes is constructed to elucidate the interactive nature of tourism motivation. Findings are utilized to develop a value-based motivation classification framework for understanding diverse value-based motivations. This study contributes to a comprehensive framework for understanding the complexity of motivation in the culture and heritage tourism context, which provides practical insights for segmentation and destination positioning.
{"title":"Exploring value-based motivations for culture and heritage tourism using the means-end chain and laddering approach","authors":"Yuchen Zhao, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2215933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2215933","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While motivations for cultural and heritage tourism remain complex and diverse, previous studies overlook the structure and link of personal values, expected experience consequences, and destination attributes. Meanwhile, value pursuit as an enduring belief influencing tourists’ motivations and behavior has received limited research attention. Therefore, this study explores diverse motivations using the means-end chain and laddering interview techniques. The Five Great Avenues in Tianjin, China, a historical landscape embodying the social characteristics of China and Western colonialism in the 18th and 19th centuries, was used as the study site. The results show that self-development and socialization are the most important value pursuits, followed by hedonism and differentiation. Other value-based motivations include identification, existentialism, escapism, and freedom. A hierarchical map between value pursuits, tourism consequences, and destination attributes is constructed to elucidate the interactive nature of tourism motivation. Findings are utilized to develop a value-based motivation classification framework for understanding diverse value-based motivations. This study contributes to a comprehensive framework for understanding the complexity of motivation in the culture and heritage tourism context, which provides practical insights for segmentation and destination positioning.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"594 - 616"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46811024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2214680
Shaogang Ding, Ruiqiang Zhang, Yingying Liu, Pan Lu, Minnan Liu
ABSTRACT Visitor crowding issues caused by over-tourism at World Heritage Sites (WHS) are increasingly prominent. However, related studies and management give less consideration to the uneven tourist spatial-temporal distribution within micro-attractions, ignoring the detrimental impacts of local crowding on WHS’ sustainable development. Aimed at exploring local crowding within heritage attractions from a perspective of time-space, this study used video-based computer vision technology to analyze tourist spatial-temporal distribution, density, and carrying capacity at stationary points (spatial locations where visitors stay and gather), taking a case study of the Master-of-Nets Garden, a World Cultural Heritage Site. The results indicated that although the total visitor number was below the attraction’s carrying capacity, visitors repeatedly and quickly crowded at stationary points and formed high-density clusters, exceeding stationary points’ space capacity and causing spatial local crowding. When visitors’ dwell time was 5, 12, and 20 seconds, the crowding index K of stationary points was 3.4∼108.5, 1.7∼42.9, and 0.5∼33, indicating the spatial local crowding effect was negatively correlated with the length of visitors’ dwell time at stationary points. Our contribution provides an accurate understanding of local crowding in WHS by highlighting the impact of tourist spatial-temporal distribution on carrying capacity and spatial crowding and suggests visitor management recommendations.
{"title":"Visitor crowding at World Heritage Sites based on tourist spatial-temporal distribution: a case study of the Master-of-Nets Garden, China","authors":"Shaogang Ding, Ruiqiang Zhang, Yingying Liu, Pan Lu, Minnan Liu","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2214680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2214680","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Visitor crowding issues caused by over-tourism at World Heritage Sites (WHS) are increasingly prominent. However, related studies and management give less consideration to the uneven tourist spatial-temporal distribution within micro-attractions, ignoring the detrimental impacts of local crowding on WHS’ sustainable development. Aimed at exploring local crowding within heritage attractions from a perspective of time-space, this study used video-based computer vision technology to analyze tourist spatial-temporal distribution, density, and carrying capacity at stationary points (spatial locations where visitors stay and gather), taking a case study of the Master-of-Nets Garden, a World Cultural Heritage Site. The results indicated that although the total visitor number was below the attraction’s carrying capacity, visitors repeatedly and quickly crowded at stationary points and formed high-density clusters, exceeding stationary points’ space capacity and causing spatial local crowding. When visitors’ dwell time was 5, 12, and 20 seconds, the crowding index K of stationary points was 3.4∼108.5, 1.7∼42.9, and 0.5∼33, indicating the spatial local crowding effect was negatively correlated with the length of visitors’ dwell time at stationary points. Our contribution provides an accurate understanding of local crowding in WHS by highlighting the impact of tourist spatial-temporal distribution on carrying capacity and spatial crowding and suggests visitor management recommendations.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"632 - 657"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43890974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2210431
Brianna Wyatt
{"title":"50 dark destinations: crime and contemporary tourism","authors":"Brianna Wyatt","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2210431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2210431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"730 - 731"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42629481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2201451
J. Malis, David Másilka, Kristyna Janeckova
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the advantages of pilgrimage for modern-day people, trying to find and describe phenomena that are integral to the pilgrim experience. The aim is to investigate this experience holistically, without any a priori focus on a specific phenomenon. The qualitatively-oriented research was based on semi-structured interviews conducted with seven Czech pilgrims, after their experience from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The textual analyses were performed using the grounded theory method. The main finding is that the most significant benefit of pilgrimage is Intense Self-knowledge as a product of six phenomena: Disengagement from Everydayness, Solitude, Company on the Pilgrimage, Spirituality, Pain and Walking in the Camino Environment. Understanding this phenomenon helps us, in return, to understand the need of post-modern individuals for seeking this unique mode of travel, in which they are jolted out of their routine over an extended period of time and are exposed to an environment associated with a Christian tradition which is based on the archetypal need to wander to find sacredness.
{"title":"The solo pilgrim phenomenon on the Journey to Santiago de Compostela in Spain","authors":"J. Malis, David Másilka, Kristyna Janeckova","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2201451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2201451","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the advantages of pilgrimage for modern-day people, trying to find and describe phenomena that are integral to the pilgrim experience. The aim is to investigate this experience holistically, without any a priori focus on a specific phenomenon. The qualitatively-oriented research was based on semi-structured interviews conducted with seven Czech pilgrims, after their experience from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The textual analyses were performed using the grounded theory method. The main finding is that the most significant benefit of pilgrimage is Intense Self-knowledge as a product of six phenomena: Disengagement from Everydayness, Solitude, Company on the Pilgrimage, Spirituality, Pain and Walking in the Camino Environment. Understanding this phenomenon helps us, in return, to understand the need of post-modern individuals for seeking this unique mode of travel, in which they are jolted out of their routine over an extended period of time and are exposed to an environment associated with a Christian tradition which is based on the archetypal need to wander to find sacredness.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"575 - 593"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44965562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2192875
A. Earl, C. M. Hall
ABSTRACT For most of the past 300 years, the concept of nostalgia has been regarded as a medical condition. However, since the 1980s, it has become heavily associated with the ‘heritage industry’ and the creation of consumer experiences, especially in a tourism and leisure context. This special issue on nostalgia and tourism aims to encourage and advance the scholarly conversation about the relationship between nostalgia and contemporary heritage tourism. The collection of articles in this special issue provides theoretical, conceptual and empirical research on nostalgia and heritage tourism in different contexts. Hence, this editorial addresses the historical development of the term ‘nostalgia’ and examines the key themes in research on nostalgia and heritage tourism.
{"title":"Nostalgia and tourism","authors":"A. Earl, C. M. Hall","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2192875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2192875","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For most of the past 300 years, the concept of nostalgia has been regarded as a medical condition. However, since the 1980s, it has become heavily associated with the ‘heritage industry’ and the creation of consumer experiences, especially in a tourism and leisure context. This special issue on nostalgia and tourism aims to encourage and advance the scholarly conversation about the relationship between nostalgia and contemporary heritage tourism. The collection of articles in this special issue provides theoretical, conceptual and empirical research on nostalgia and heritage tourism in different contexts. Hence, this editorial addresses the historical development of the term ‘nostalgia’ and examines the key themes in research on nostalgia and heritage tourism.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"307 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41637065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2189523
Susan Weidmann, S. Filep, B. Lovelock
ABSTRACT The paper examines emotions generated in potential visitors through the promotional imagery used in fright tourism, a form of dark heritage tourism. In fright tourism, an unusual combination of human emotions of fun and fear are experienced by tourists through activities such as haunted house visits and ghost tours. A modified model, based on Russell’s [1980. A circumplex model of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(6), 1161–1178] Circumplex Model of Affect, was developed to measure emotions in fright tourism advertising. The model was constructed with empirical data from the United States and New Zealand. The data were obtained through interviews with business owners of fright tourism attractions, focus groups, and a questionnaire of potential visitors. Findings indicated statistically significant correlations exist between human emotions in different quadrants of the model (positive/pleasant and negative/unpleasant). The findings suggest, contrary to the application of the Circumplex Model in more conventional tourism settings, that fright tourism business’ advertisements induce contradictory emotions. The study challenges current understandings of visitor experiences and contributes to knowledge about how fright tourism heritage experiences may best be promoted.
{"title":"Promoting the thrills: a study of emotional reactions to advertisements for fright tourism heritage attractions","authors":"Susan Weidmann, S. Filep, B. Lovelock","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2189523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2189523","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper examines emotions generated in potential visitors through the promotional imagery used in fright tourism, a form of dark heritage tourism. In fright tourism, an unusual combination of human emotions of fun and fear are experienced by tourists through activities such as haunted house visits and ghost tours. A modified model, based on Russell’s [1980. A circumplex model of affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(6), 1161–1178] Circumplex Model of Affect, was developed to measure emotions in fright tourism advertising. The model was constructed with empirical data from the United States and New Zealand. The data were obtained through interviews with business owners of fright tourism attractions, focus groups, and a questionnaire of potential visitors. Findings indicated statistically significant correlations exist between human emotions in different quadrants of the model (positive/pleasant and negative/unpleasant). The findings suggest, contrary to the application of the Circumplex Model in more conventional tourism settings, that fright tourism business’ advertisements induce contradictory emotions. The study challenges current understandings of visitor experiences and contributes to knowledge about how fright tourism heritage experiences may best be promoted.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"445 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44523183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2188450
Mohamed Amer, M. Ginzarly, M. Renzi
ABSTRACT The valorization of the UNESCO WHC emblem as a brand icon overlooks the marketing statement of local heritage sites that are not designated as world heritage. This practice leads to competition rather than collaboration which could result in endangering the intangible cultural heritage expressions and authentic cultural knowledge. Moreover, the tourism market deals mostly with the cultural landscape as a semi-customized product valorizing the role of publicity which might have a high negative impact on the conservation statement of the cultural asset. Consequently, this research investigates the interconnection between the fundamentals of branding and conservative management to enhance the outstanding values of cultural identity manifestations. It is an empirical study that reviews the branding statement of the Italian cultural landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio. It applies an integrated method that combines qualitative and quantitative analysis. It assesses 20 interviews with the key site stakeholders and more than 7000 social media posts. The findings of this study draw a proposal for a people-centred heritage branding approach that seeks to generate a lifelong learning memory for the community and a long-term brand image for the visitors’ mentality.
联合国教科文组织世界遗产委员会会徽作为品牌标志的定价忽略了未被指定为世界遗产的当地遗产地的营销声明。这种做法导致竞争而非合作,这可能会危及非物质文化遗产的表现形式和真实的文化知识。此外,旅游市场主要将文化景观作为一种半定制产品,对宣传的作用进行估价,这可能会对文化资产的保护声明产生很大的负面影响。因此,本研究调查了品牌的基本原理和保守管理之间的相互联系,以增强文化身份表现的突出价值。这是一项实证研究,回顾了意大利文化景观Civita di Bagnoregio的品牌声明。它采用了定性和定量分析相结合的综合方法。它评估了对关键网站利益相关者的20次采访和7000多条社交媒体帖子。这项研究的结果为以人为中心的遗产品牌方法提出了建议,该方法旨在为社区创造终身学习记忆,并为游客的心态创造长期的品牌形象。
{"title":"Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy: towards a people-centred heritage branding approach","authors":"Mohamed Amer, M. Ginzarly, M. Renzi","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2188450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2188450","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The valorization of the UNESCO WHC emblem as a brand icon overlooks the marketing statement of local heritage sites that are not designated as world heritage. This practice leads to competition rather than collaboration which could result in endangering the intangible cultural heritage expressions and authentic cultural knowledge. Moreover, the tourism market deals mostly with the cultural landscape as a semi-customized product valorizing the role of publicity which might have a high negative impact on the conservation statement of the cultural asset. Consequently, this research investigates the interconnection between the fundamentals of branding and conservative management to enhance the outstanding values of cultural identity manifestations. It is an empirical study that reviews the branding statement of the Italian cultural landscape of Civita di Bagnoregio. It applies an integrated method that combines qualitative and quantitative analysis. It assesses 20 interviews with the key site stakeholders and more than 7000 social media posts. The findings of this study draw a proposal for a people-centred heritage branding approach that seeks to generate a lifelong learning memory for the community and a long-term brand image for the visitors’ mentality.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"483 - 503"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45748936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2188451
Chris Zhu, C. Hall, L. Fong, Christy Ying Ni Liu, Sara Naderi Koupaei
ABSTRACT The emergence of digital technology has led researchers, businesses, and entrepreneurs to reflect more on the potential value that Augmented Reality (AR) can play in tourism. Although the relationship between authenticity and travel intention has been examined previously, little is known about how authenticity influences tourist travel intention after an AR experience. To fill this research gap, the current study constructs a theoretical model from narrative transportation theory. The results show that narrative transportation is a mechanism that bridges object-based authenticity and existential authenticity with travel intention. This study provides valuable theoretical insights into the antecedents and consequences of narrative transport while enriching the understanding of AR. Meaningful practical insights are offered to destination authorities.
{"title":"Does a good story prompt visit intention? Evidence from the augmented reality experience at a heritage site in China","authors":"Chris Zhu, C. Hall, L. Fong, Christy Ying Ni Liu, Sara Naderi Koupaei","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2188451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2188451","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The emergence of digital technology has led researchers, businesses, and entrepreneurs to reflect more on the potential value that Augmented Reality (AR) can play in tourism. Although the relationship between authenticity and travel intention has been examined previously, little is known about how authenticity influences tourist travel intention after an AR experience. To fill this research gap, the current study constructs a theoretical model from narrative transportation theory. The results show that narrative transportation is a mechanism that bridges object-based authenticity and existential authenticity with travel intention. This study provides valuable theoretical insights into the antecedents and consequences of narrative transport while enriching the understanding of AR. Meaningful practical insights are offered to destination authorities.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"427 - 444"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49201322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2181701
Farhad Nazir, A. Caldeira, C. Seabra
ABSTRACT This paper scrutinizes the media coverage regarding Jahanabad Seated Buddhist statue, in Pakistan, considering both its destruction in 2007 and the subsequent restoration campaign, using content analysis of audio-visual and textual news. Based on 41 online news archives (broadcast on national, regional, and global news outlets), the findings unravel the marginalized narratives of the local community. Digitally mediated community activism appeared as a significant dimension amidst both the destruction and rebuilding periods. Concomitantly, antithetical to the grammar of violence disseminated by radicals, the grammar of compassion emerged. Also based on the content analysis, we found that the tourism value of this heritage asset contributed to its safeguarding and rebuilding. The interplay of these aspects promotes, in a certain way, Jahanabad Seated Buddhist statue as a second-chance tourism site, in in-situ and ex-situ forms. This study offers relevant theoretical, institutional, and managerial implications regarding the site under analysis and other threatened heritage sites.
{"title":"Heritage tourism and terrorism: media coverage of the destruction and rebuilding of Jahanabad Seated Buddha in Pakistan","authors":"Farhad Nazir, A. Caldeira, C. Seabra","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2181701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2181701","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper scrutinizes the media coverage regarding Jahanabad Seated Buddhist statue, in Pakistan, considering both its destruction in 2007 and the subsequent restoration campaign, using content analysis of audio-visual and textual news. Based on 41 online news archives (broadcast on national, regional, and global news outlets), the findings unravel the marginalized narratives of the local community. Digitally mediated community activism appeared as a significant dimension amidst both the destruction and rebuilding periods. Concomitantly, antithetical to the grammar of violence disseminated by radicals, the grammar of compassion emerged. Also based on the content analysis, we found that the tourism value of this heritage asset contributed to its safeguarding and rebuilding. The interplay of these aspects promotes, in a certain way, Jahanabad Seated Buddhist statue as a second-chance tourism site, in in-situ and ex-situ forms. This study offers relevant theoretical, institutional, and managerial implications regarding the site under analysis and other threatened heritage sites.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"504 - 530"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42780611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}